Quotes About Past

Modrice su nestale, ali su rane još uvek bile tu.

Es triste que nuestro cerebro no sea capaz de almacenar los recuerdos de cada segundo de nuestra vida. En la memoria solo queda pedacería. Además, la percepción nos juega trucos. Superponemos hechos reales con imaginarios y lo que dábamos como sucedido no es más que una invención. El recuerdo de nuestro pasado queda a mitad de camino entre lo ficticio y lo verídico

De todos los fantasmas, los fantasmas de nuestros amores pasados son los peores.

Los fantasmas existen. Es todo lo que sé. Se desvanecen, junto con el pasado, como la niebla en plena luz del día… a su paso, dejan enseñanzas simbólicas. Certezas simbólicas.

An old man's beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs?

The task of an inspiring leader in Kali Yuga is not just to think about the difficulty of being good but how to confront that difficulty—and to place that thinking in the great textual confrontations of the past.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

The ideas of the past, although half destroyed, being still very powerful, and the ideas which are to replace them being still in process of formation, the modern age represents a period of transition and anarchy.

Lo que ha sido no tiene razón de ser nuevamente y no será.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

We see only glimpses of history, even our own. It is not entirely ours--in memory, in writing it down, in hearing or in reading it. We can reclaim only part of the past. Sometimes it is enough....

Heimthra' was the word used for longing: for home, for the past, for things to be as they once had been. Even the gods were said to know that yearning, from when the worlds were broken.

I haven't always found that it is our intentions, the decisions we make, that shape and guide our lives. The opposite, just as often, it seems to me. Impulse creates our stories, or chance, the entirely unforeseen. And what we remember of our own past can be unpredictable. I didn't learn this at school in Avegna, but I think Guarino would have agreed.

I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.

One should always be suspicious of a woman who tells you that her past was burnt in the flames of a schoolhouse in Peshawar.

El olvido es ahora la especialidad de su memoria.

Pienso que las dos versiones son ciertas, adversariamente verdaderas. Se contradicen sólo en el pasado impenetrable y nebuloso de donde surgen, pero se funden y se completan en la simultaneidad del presente, donde puedo entender que todos tenían razón y que la verdad no existe sino en la suma de las razones encontradas, pues la verdad es siempre el resto opaco de las cosas

El nacionalismo revolucionario absorbió todas las señas de identidad del pasado en un mezcla única.

The future must no longer be determined by the past. I do not deny that the effects of the past are still with us. But I refuse to strengthen them by repeating them, to confer upon them an irremovability the equivalent of destiny, to confuse the biological and the cultural. Anticipation is imperative.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.